Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
FWIW, I think having McAfee .debs, even in non-free, would be a win. However, another thought occurred to me. Stephen, could you ask them to clarify the licensing of their DAT files? If they are indeed free, as URL:http://www.nai.com/download/updates/whatdat.asp seems to imply, someone oughta

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: Since when did linux get virus's You'd only get them on a really bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root). On a linux system exporting disk space to Windows machines, it is indeed practical to have an

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only thing I'd have to work on would be upstream upgrades (it currently doesn't handle this

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only thing I'd have to work

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only thing I'd have to work

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 08:01:05AM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan installer package in slink

suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Birgitt Simon
Dear Sirs, we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer viruses in Germany could be counted on one hand, we deal with the

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Birgitt Simon wrote: We offer you a free version from AntiVir for Linux, so that you will deliver our program with your next distribution CD-ROM. When we (Debian) speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. To be included in our CD-ROM, every program

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: Dear Sirs, we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread warp
Before I say anything let me state that I am, currently, not even a registered Debian developer, just a user, however.. I'd suggest that you take a look at the debian web page (www.debian.org), specificly the Social Contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract), including the DFSG (Debian Free

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: Since when did linux get virus's A linux antivirus is a linux program which detects virus in your DOS partition. (At least this is what I understood from the post). -- 59c014d91ae9e30e1552dd2a66f4f4a5 (a truly random sig)

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: Dear Sirs, we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection program AntiVir for Linux.

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: Dear Sirs, we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:00:00AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: Dear Sirs, we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial use is permitted. Either one of these would cause Debian to place your

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:18:25AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial use is